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Policy Planning / Programs & Services / Weekly Briefs / 06/03/2013

Weekly Briefs - June 3, 2013

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  1. Transportation System: Seaports – Freight and Cruise Activity - This report highlights Florida's seaport activities in waterborne international trade, freight and cruises.
  2. Casual Carpooling Focus Group Study - This report describes the results of a focus group study, exploring the phenomenon of casual carpooling from the perspective of individuals who participate in such systems as drivers and/or passengers.
  3. Preliminary Statement of Policy Concerning Automated Vehicles - This polcy statement describes developments in automated driving, explains the levels of automation defined by NHTSA, reviews NHTSA’s automated research program, and provides recommendations for states who may wish to apply as part of their considerations for driverless vehicle operation.
  4. Reaching Zero: Actions to Eliminate Alcohol-Impaired Driving - This report makes safety recommendations to achieve meaningful reductions in alcohol-impaired driving crashes and recognizes the need for states to identify specific and measurable goals for reducing impaired driving fatalities and injuries.
  5. Miscellaneous Reports
    • Status Report - This status report examines the impacts of Michigan’s repeal of its universal helmet law on crash rates and injury severity of motorcyclists and their passengers, compares the motorcycle helmet laws among all 50 states, highlights the effects of antilock brake sytems on motorcycles in preventing crashes, and compares injury patterns and severity of younger and older motorcyclists.

For further information contact Monica Zhong or phone (850) 414-4808